Edit: Due to the fact that this article is old, the installation instructions may not work anymore. In order to successfully install the latest version of Wine, please access the wine tag and open the latest article (the one on top).

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Wine 1.7.11 has been recently released, coming with a bunch of bug-fixes and enhancements. Among others, it got Uniscribe support in the RichEdit control, some D3D commad stream enhancements, a Smart Menu that can be optionally added to the desktop mode, and improved support for the following Windows applications: Adobe Lightroom 4, Spotify, Foxit Reader 6, .NET Framework 4.0, and Internet Explorer 7. For more information, see the official changelog.

Because it will be soon available via PPA, installing Wine 1.7.11 on the listed Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS and Elementary OS systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine1.7 and winetricks packages. Like this: